Young People’s Perceptions of and Aspirations in Agriculture: A Case Study of Ghana’s Cocoa Sector
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Invited Conference Presentations
Examines young people’s perceptions of agriculture and their aspirations for future employment, using Ghana’s cocoa sector to explore the factors that encourage or discourage youth participation in farming and the wider agrifood economy.
Findings on Bank Workers
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Presents findings on women’s employment in Ghana’s banking sector, highlighting changing employment arrangements, the growth of agency work and the implications of increasingly informalised working conditions for women workers.
Claiming the 21st Century: Youth People’s Aspirations and Perceptions of Future Employment in Ghana
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Invited Conference Presentations
Examines young people’s aspirations and expectations for future employment in Ghana, focusing on how education, social conditions and labour-market opportunities shape their ideas about work, mobility and the future.
Women’s Work in the Banking Sector in Ghana: Informalizing Employment
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Invited Conference Presentations
Examines changing employment practices in Ghana’s banking sector and their implications for women workers, focusing on the informalisation of formal employment through agency work, insecure contracts and reduced employment protections.
How to Analyse Social Policy (Pro-Poor, Gender-Sensitive Analysis)
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Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Explores approaches to analysing social policy through pro-poor and gender-sensitive perspectives, with emphasis on how policy choices affect inequality, vulnerability and different groups within society.
Theorising Gender, Gender Relations and Gender Inequalities
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Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Explores key concepts of gender, gender relations and gender inequality, with emphasis on how social norms, institutions and power relations shape women’s and men’s experiences and opportunities.
Why Gender Matters in Microenterprise Development
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Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Examines why gender is important in microenterprise development, highlighting how women’s and men’s different roles, responsibilities, access to resources and economic opportunities shape enterprise outcomes.
The Video Revolution and Its Potential for Cultural and Political Pan-Africanism
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Invited Conference Presentations
Explores the growth of video technologies in Africa and their potential to strengthen cultural exchange, political consciousness and Pan-African connections through new forms of audiovisual production and circulation.
Rights, Power and Civic Action – Findings from Ghana Study
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Presents findings from the Ghana study on rights, power and civic action, examining how civil society actors mobilise around rights claims and negotiate relationships of power in efforts to influence social and political change.
What Do We Know About Women’s Lives in Africa and How Does That Affect How We Do Development?
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Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Reflects on what is known about women’s lives in Africa and considers how assumptions, evidence and representations of African women influence the design and practice of development interventions.
Rural-Rural Child Migration in West Africa
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Invited Conference Presentations
Examines rural-to-rural child migration in West Africa, considering the circumstances that shape children’s movement between rural communities and the implications of migration for their livelihoods, well-being and development.
Taking the Lead? A Study of Discourses and Practices on Women’s Empowerment by Ghana’s MOWAC
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Examines the discourses and practices surrounding women’s empowerment within Ghana’s Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs (MOWAC), considering how empowerment is understood, translated into policy and reflected in institutional practice.
Theorising the Intersection of Public Policy and Personal Lives Through the Lens of Participation
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Invited Conference Presentations
Examines the relationship between public policy and people’s personal lives through the concept of participation, considering how individuals experience, interpret and respond to development policies and programmes intended to involve them in decision-making.
Understanding the Problem: The National Context
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Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Examines the national context surrounding the challenge of developing and retaining the next generation of academics, with attention to the institutional and policy conditions shaping academic careers and higher education.
Truly National? Social Inclusion and Ghana@50 Celebrations
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Invited Conference Presentations
Examines questions of social inclusion and national belonging through Ghana’s 50th independence anniversary celebrations, considering who was represented in the national narrative and how different groups experienced the commemorative events.
Mapping Sustainable Production in the Cocoa Sector
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Examines sustainable production in Ghana’s cocoa sector, focusing on the economic and social conditions shaping cocoa production, the livelihoods of producers and workers, and the challenges involved in promoting more sustainable practices within the cocoa value chain.
Social Protection for Migrant Labour in the Ghanaian Pineapple Sector
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Examines the social protection needs and vulnerabilities of migrant labour in Ghana’s pineapple sector, focusing on employment conditions, livelihood risks and the forms of support available to migrant workers within export-oriented agriculture.
Perspectives of a Young Scholar
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Keynotes, Plenaries and Invited Talks
Reflects on the experiences and perspectives of an emerging African scholar, with attention to the opportunities, challenges and institutional conditions affecting the development and retention of the next generation of academics in African universities.
The Individual in Development
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Invited Conference Presentations
Explores the place of the individual within development processes, considering how personal values, identities, aspirations and lived experiences interact with broader efforts to address poverty and promote social and economic development.
Women’s Empowerment Through Income-Generating Programs: Discourse and Reality
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Examines the relationship between income-generating programmes and women’s empowerment, questioning whether programme goals and development discourse are reflected in women’s actual experiences, choices and control over resources.